A small plane towing a banner crashed in the ocean Friday during a lifeguard competition that turned into a real-life rescue along Southern California’s popular Huntington Beach. Corinne Baginski was at the beach for her 17-year-old daughter’s races in the junior lifeguarding division around 1:30 p.m. when she heard the sound of the aircraft slamming…
A Vueling pilot fled his plane after there was an explosion, abandoning the passengers. A passenger said the pilot of a passenger jet abandoned all those on board after being the first to flee the plane following a loud explosion. Andrew Benion told The Sun he was aboard a Vueling flight from Barcelona to Birmingham…
Thousands of baby chickens died Tuesday from excessive heat, found in a cargo warehouse by a Miami-Dade airport employee. The “employee found the shipment of baby chickens in an Alliance (Ground International) Cargo warehouse that had arrived that day on a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul” during a routine patrol, explained Greg Chin,…
Embraer’s latest aircraft, the E195-E2, made its debut landing at London’s iconic City Airport. London City Airport, United Kingdom, 22 July 2022 – After departing the Farnborough Airshow, Embraer’s latest aircraft, the E195-E2, made its debut landing at London’s iconic City Airport (LCY); demonstrating the aircraft’s steep approach capability. The visit, in anticipation of the…
Eight people were injured Wednesday during “unexpected turbulence” aboard an American Airlines flight from Florida to Tennessee that caused the flight to divert to an Alabama airport, officials said. American Eagle Flight 3609, with 52 customers, two flight attendants and two pilots on board, was flying from Tampa to Nashville when it encountered the turbulence,…
A ‘drunk’ pilot has been arrested after flying his light aircraft from Florida to Missouri before landing on the interstate. John T. Seesing, 35, of Prairie Village, Kansas, landed a small aircraft on I-70 near Grain Valley around 2.45am on Friday. Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) said it believes Seesing was headed toward the Wheeler…
Jet 882″ got in trouble. In this mostly audio-only clip, a Beech King Air 350i pilot gets stopped partway down the runway as he tries to take off without clearance. Incident recorded at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on July 17, 2022.
A staff at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport was taken into police custody on July 14 after scaring a little girl by telling her that there was “a terrorist on the plane”. On July 14, in full departure on vacation and while several unions of employees of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport were on strike, an Air France flight to Saint-Denis…
An airport worker was stabbed in the baggage claim area of San Francisco International Airport Tuesday morning and a person was detained in the case, police said. The stabbing was reported at around 4:55 a.m. Tuesday at airport Terminal 3. San Francisco police said officers arrived and found an adult male victim suffering from stab…
The pilots of a Qantas passenger jet were forced to declare a “mayday” after running low on fuel as they were put in a midair queue with other planes near Perth. Qantas Flight 933 made the emergency call several hundred kilometres east of Perth on Monday July 18th, which has since sparked an investigation by…
Boeing and the U.S. Navy have completed a series of manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) flight tests in which a Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet successfully demonstrated command and control of three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Boeing system engineers connected Block III’s adjunct processor, known as the Distributed Targeting Processor – Networked (DTP-N), with a third-party tablet…
Airbus and CFM International, a 50/50 joint company between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, are collaborating to flight test CFM’s cutting-edge open fan engine architecture. The Flight Test Demonstrator aims to mature and accelerate the development of advanced propulsion technologies, as part of CFM’s Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engine (RISE) demonstration program, on board an…